JOHN TYLER
                     A REGISTER OF ADDITIONS TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                   Prepared
                                     1979

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                             Library of Congress 


                             Washington, D.C. 1997



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

      Additions to the papers of John Tyler (1790-1862), attorney,
planter, congressman, governor, senator from Virginia, and vice
president and president of the United States, consist of material
received through gift and purchase by the Library of Congress
from 1961 to 1997.


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                   Linear feet of shelf space occupied:  .2
                   Number of items:                      17



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                               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


1790             Born, Greenway, Charles City County, Va. 

1807             Graduated, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
                 Began study of law

1809             Admitted to the Virginia bar 
                 Began law practice in Charles City County, Va. 

1811-1816        Elected to Virginia House of Delegates

1813             Married Letitia Christian (died 1842)

1815-1816        Member, Virginia executive council

1816-1821        Member, U.S. House of Representatives

1823-1825        Member, Virginia House of Delegates

1825-1827        Governor of Virginia

1827-1836        U.S. senator

1839             Member, Virginia House of Delegates

1840             Elected vice president of the United States 

1841-1845        President of the United States

1841             Expelled from the Whig party following veto of the bill to
                    establish a national bank

1842             Impeachment resolution introduced in the House of
                    Representatives after veto of a tariff bill

1844             Submitted treaty to annex the Republic of Texas;
                    ratification failed in the Senate
                 Married Julia Gardiner
                 Failed to be nominated to succeed himself as president 

1845             Signed joint resolution of the Congress admitting Texas to
                    the Union as a slaveholding state

1861             Elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate
                    congress as member from Virginia but died before serving

1862, Jan. 18    Died, Richmond, Va.



                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE


      Material added to the John Tyler Papers since the collection was filmed
in 1961 has been organized as Series 4, Addenda, and the items are grouped by
the year in which each addition was processed.  The 1979 Addition includes
twelve letters to and from Tyler and a letter fragment.  Correspondents
include Hugh B. Grigsby, John Leeds Kerr, James Lyons, Cincinnatus Newton,
Judge Tucker, and John Tyler's daughter, Mary Tyler, and son, Robert Tyler.

      The 1996-1997 Addition contains three items of correspondence, one of
which is a photostatic copy, and an engraved portrait.  One letter, dated
1832, contains advice and news from Tyler to his daughter Mary at the family
home in Virginia.  A letter of condolence from clergyman Septimus Tustin upon
the death of Tyler's wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, is dated 1842.  A copy of
Tyler's letter of recommendation for the superintendency of Harper's Ferry,
dated 1841, was written during his brief tenure as vice president in the
administration of William Henry Harrison.  The engraved portrait was published
in New York by Johnson, Fry & Co. in 1863 "from the original painting by
Chapel."



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                                CONTAINER LIST



Container No.     Contents

SERIES 4, ADDENDA, 1830-1863, n.d.

Box 1            1979 Addition
                    Correspondence, 1830-1860, n.d.
                 1996-1997 Addition
                    Correspondence, 1832, 1841-1842
                    Engraved portrait, 1863


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